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Why were edgar allan poe's poems so dark?

"Edgar Allan Poe." About.com. Web. 28 Apr. 2010. <http://www.about.com>.
  1. mother died before his eyes
  2. mother died when he was 3
  3. spent 2 days with the corpse of his mother
  4. father died when he was 3
  5. had gambling issues
  6. was alienated by his foster parents
  7. girl he loved got engaged to somone else
  8. got nothing when his father died
  9. Married his cousin
  10. was deperssed
  11. was alcoholic
  12. wife died
  13. she died of tubecleosis
  14. was remarried
  15. was divorced cause he drank
  16. met childhood love, she had been widowed
  17. going to get married
  18. Died before the wedding
  19. died from congestion of brain
  20. thought to have been captured and beaten



"Edgar Allan Poe." Associatedcontent.com. Web. 28 Apr. 2010. <http://http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/734351/symbolism_in_edgar_allen_poes_the_cask.html>.

  1. clown represets irony
  2. wine represets class
  3. catacombs: dead body was wife?
  4. story simulates irony
  5. the black cat: horror in all?
  6. raven: mignight in december: change
  7. raven symbolises wisdom
  8. month his mother died
  9. raven is ill omen
  10. narrator is tourtured by the truth
  11. originally a parrot
  12. Prince Prospero indicates a person of great wealth and high prestige
  13. had a cat
  14. named catterina
  15. had a bird
  16. and a raven
  17. had a dog
  18. name was pluto
  19. lived in boston
  20. died in baltimore
Things He Wrote
"Edgar Allen Poe." Readprint.com. Web. 29 Apr. 2010.
  1. Al Aaraaf
  2. Annabel Lee
  3. The Bells
  4. The city in the sea
  5. The concurer Worm
  6. A dream within a dream
  7. Eldorado
  8. Eulalie
  9. The haunted palace
  10. To helen
  11. Lenore
  12. Tamerlane
  13. The Raven
  14. Ulalume
  15. The black cat
  16. the case of Amontillado
  17. Decent in to the maelstrom
  18. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
  19. The Fall of the House of Usher
  20. The gold Bug
  21. Ligiea
  22. The Masque of the Red Death
  23. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
  24. The Oval Portrait
  25. The pit and the pendulum
  26. The Premature Burial
  27. The Purloined Letter
  28. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
  29. The Tell-Tale Heart


Childhood

"Bio of Edgar Allan Poe." Noteablebiographies.com. Web. 28 Apr. 2010. <http://http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pe-Pu/Poe-Edgar-Allan.html>.
  1. Was orphaned At 3
  2. Separated from his sister
  3. uncle cut poe out of his will
  4. Was in the army
  5. Published in magazines
  6. Got a job for thesouthern literary messenger
  7. made his only long story in 1838
  8. 3 wives died
  9. he married his cousin who died from tubercleosis
  10. was emotionally scarred from childhood
  11. had drinking and gambling issues